Who Do You Trust?
You may have seen it before; advertisements for "Seven Great Prayers". It's a website you can visit to get seven prayers that--if you repeat them often enough--will presumably give you a healthy, wealthy and wise life.I have my doubts.
Actually, I visited that website over a year ago. It was quite interesting. There was a great big announcement that there was a special deal on. Here's the text of the advertisement:
Quote:
| Special Note: These two Free Prayer CDs are available only during a special marketing test that expires midnight Friday, April 23, 2004. This offer will NOT appear again. Don't delay, or you may not get your two Free Prayer CDs worth $30.95...FREE!! |
The funny thing was, the date was April 23rd, 2004. In other words, the offer was going to expire at midnight that very day.
I have to confess, I'm a skeptic where online businesses are concerned, and my first thought was, it's not really going to expire tonight. He's got dynamic text in his website that updates with the new date every single day.
So I went back the next day. Sure enough, the date had changed. I kept going back each day, and every day the announcement stated that the offer would expire that very night.
Hmmm...highly suspicious. Well, I just went back there again today, and look what I found:
Quote:
| Special Note: These two Free Prayer CDs are available only during a special marketing test that expires midnight Friday, April 29, 2005. This offer will NOT appear again. Don't delay, or you may not get your two Free Prayer CDs worth $31.90...FREE!! |
The only thing that has changed in the last year? The price has gone up.
There's not a whole lot to say about this, except...obviously you wouldn't want to receive religious instruction from someone with such a blatant lack of integrity.
Proverbs 22:22
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful.
Posted On Apr 29, 2005 at 7:45 AM
On Apr 29, 2005 Doug wrote: Just an added comment here. When I visited the site a year ago, it didn't occur to me to view the source code, to see how his text was generated. Here it is:
document.write(" midnight " +today + ".");
This is javascript, and it runs on your computer. Which means...heh heh heh...if you visit his page, then change the date on your computer's clock, then reload the page, you can watch the magic happen right before your very eyes!
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